metathesis
英 [mɪ'tæθɪsɪs]
美[mə'tæθəsɪs]
- n. 音位转换；置换作用；交换；[医] 病变移植
英英释意
- 1. a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
- 2. a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)